Calendar of events

Upcoming Events

It is the 3rd anniversary of our 3.11 leafleting vigil and protest on 7th August 2015. As it is a special occasion for all of us, we would like to organise our monthly READ-OUT of our
statement to the Japanese Prime Minister on this day instead of 31st July 2015.
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In August in Japan it is reported that Kyushu Electric Power Company plans to apply to regulators for the final ‘applied safety inspection’ of Sendai nuclear power plant 1 on 3rd August. This check is expected to take one week, making 10th August a potential start-up date.
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Last week it was reported in the Guardian and elsewhere that the Treasury was less than enthusiastic about the terms of the deal the British Government had entered into with EDF over the building of Hinkley C nuclear power station.

Because of this Kick Nuclear have decided to hold two leafletting sessions outside the Treasury underlining just how terrible a deal it is and congratulating them on their stand.

Last week it was reported in the Guardian and elsewhere that the Treasury was less than enthusiastic about the terms of the deal the British Government had entered into with EDF over the building of Hinkley C nuclear power station.

Because of this Kick Nuclear have decided to hold two leafletting sessions outside the Treasury underlining just how terrible a deal it is and congratulating them on their stand.

SUPPORT IRISH NATIONAL TRUST LEGAL ACTION TO STOP UK BUILDING NEW NUCLEAR POWER STATION.

On Thursday, the High Court in London will hear a judicial review brought by An Taisce, Ireland's equivalent of the National Trust, regarding the legality of the decision by the UK Energy Secretary, Ed Davey to grant permission to build two new nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point in Somerset.

Outside Highbury & Islington station - this is both on the North London line, used by trains carrying highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel rods, and on the Victoria underground line. Busy station – the more the merrier to staff stall, leaflet, petition, etc.

On thursday Septenmber 26th Kick Nuclear activists will be
leafleting outside of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

This will be while Professor Andrew Sherry from the Dalton
Nuclear Institute gives the annual Pressure Systems Group
lecture entitled:
‘ Nuclear energy within a low carbon world, the manufacturing
and operational challenges for existing reactor designs as well as
research challenges for future reactor systems.’

The title of the Kick Nuclear leaflet will be
‘Why Nuclear is Finished.’

Evacuation Zones around SizewellThere will be a candle lit vigil outside the gates of the power plants from 8pm on the 26th until 8am on the 27th - please bring candles.
There will not be a full 'Sizewell Camp' this year but some people will be camping on the beach.
It will be self catering but some cooking facilities will be available as well as hot drinks (bring your own mug). There is also a cafe on the beach and takeaways available in nearby Leiston.

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This Tuesday, 2nd April 2013, london anti-nuke types will
demonstrate at the Teasury from 08.30 till 09.30 in solidarity
with the Treasury and its hard line in the negotiations with EDF
over the nuclear electricity strike price.

Join us for a candlelight vigil outside the Japanese Embassy (101 Piccadilly, London W1J 7JT - see map) to mark two years to the day since the start of the Fukushima nuclear crisis and earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

London demo in solidarity with Fukushima victims and Japanese anti-nuclear protesters

THIS FRIDAY WE WILL BE HOLDING A SOLIDARITY PROTEST OUTSIDE THE JAPANESE EMBASSY IN LONDON, FOLLOWED BY A SHORT PROTEST OUTSIDE THE OFFICES OF TEPCO, THE OPERATOR OF THE STRICKEN FUKUSHIMA-1 NUCLEAR POWER PLANT.

Kick Nuclear and friends will be picketing and leafleting outside the Nuclear Industry Association in conference in Westminster. Please join us! For more details, e-mail: kicknuclear [at] kicknuclear.org

Kick Nuclear is holding an open nite for new folks and old hands alike to come and discuss the latest from the murky world of nuclear energy and nuclear new build, share news about protests and actions that have been taking place in the UK and elsewhere, and plot how we can put a few spanners in the works. There'll be tea and biccies, and we may even show some short films.

Witch Watch happens every full moon at Hinkley Point, usually on the layby just before the main gate to Hinkley Point nuclear power station. It is a vigil and camp lasting from 1 to 3 days. It's a women's gathering, though men are welcome to visit during daylight hours.

Reading, in Berkshire, is barely ten miles from the major nuclear licensed site at the Atomic Weapons Establishment Aldermaston. Just how safe are we?

Join international nuclear safety consultant John Large for an evening of discussion on nuclear emergency planning arrangements for the Atomic Weapons Establishment and the lessons we should be learning from the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

Anti-nuclear campaigners from London, the South-West and elsewhere will join the Climate Bloc on Saturday 20th October to deliver our key messages: "Real Climate Jobs, Not Nuclear Jobs" and "No to Nuclear Subsidies." If you'd like to join us, please get in touch so we can co-ordinate our efforts - network [at] stopnuclearpoweruk.net

There will be coaches travelling to London to join the march from all over the UK:

Please do join us at this public meeting at the House of Commons about Koodankulam and Hinkley (just come to the entrance of the House of Commons and say you want to attend a public meeting in Committee Room 6).

THIS FRIDAY WE WILL BE HOLDING A SOLIDARITY PROTEST OUTSIDE THE JAPANESE EMBASSY IN LONDON, FOLLOWED BY A SHORT PROTEST OUTSIDE THE OFFICES OF TEPCO, THE OPERATOR OF THE FUKUSHIMA 1 NUCLEAR POWER PLANT.

11am-12:50pm, Embassy of Japan, 101-104 Piccadilly W1. (Nearest tube Green Park. Walk west from there in the direction of Hyde Park Corner.)

The three Councils will be holding their meetings on the same day at the same time, meeting separately to ensure independent decisions!! Cumbria’s Cabinet looked likely to say NO which would have brought the nasty juggernaught to a standstill.

A demo in solidarity with the Reclaim Hinkley mass action will be held outside the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), 3 Whitehall Place, London, SW1A 2AW, on Monday 8th October 2012, from 12noon to 2pm.

Following the success of two recent mass actions at Hinkley Point nuclear power station in Somerset, the Stop New Nuclear alliance is now planning a third mass action, on the site earmarked for the Hinkley C mega power station.

In March 2012, around 1000 people took part in a 24-hour blockade of the entrance to EDF’s nuclear power station in Somerset. This was one of the largest and longest blockades of a nuclear power plant in the history of the British anti-nuclear movement.

Milton Keynes Peace Pagoda are organising a walk in memory of Handa Shonin from the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston to Hinkley Point, the site of a proposed new nuclear power station, in Somerset.

From Hiroshima to Fukushima:

The Japanese Peace Boat is visiting London and joining with CND and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) to create awareness of the humanitarian consequences of nuclear technologies used for weapons and energy.

Yoshi Takamura, a lawyer and environmentalist, who lives in Hiroshima, is coming to speak in Colchester on 18 June.His theme is Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Fukushima, and the links between nuclear power and nuclear weapons.

Yoshi's talk will be introduced by Andy Blowers, who will speak on the subject 'Fukushima - it is a moral issue'.The meeting will be held at the Quakers Meeting House, Church Street, Colchester (near the Mercury Theatre) at 7.30 pm.

The Big Six Energy BashKick Nuclear, Stop Nuclear Power Network and friends are asking anti-nuclear activists from around the country to mobilise for this and to join them as part of the 'Dirty Energy' bloc at The Big Six Energy Bash in central London on Thursday 3rd May, from 11am, to give EDF Energy and friends a right ole bashin' and expose nuclear power as the false, dirty, dangerous and undemocratic 'solution' to climate change that it is.

Hinkley Point is the first of eight proposed sites for nuclear new build to go ahead. We stopped them here before in 1987, and we can do it again in 2012. If they fail at Hinkley, it is unlikely the “nuclear renaissance” will have the momentum to continue.

On the 10th -11th March 2012, one year since the Fukushima nuclear disaster began, we will return to Hinkley to form a human chain around the station to show our determined opposition to new nuclear.

Hinkley Point is the first of eight proposed sites for nuclear new build to go ahead. We stopped them here before in 1987, and we can do it again in 2012. If they fail at Hinkley, it is unlikely the “nuclear renaissance” will have the momentum to continue.

On the 10th -11th March 2012, one year since the Fukushima nuclear disaster began, we will return to Hinkley to form a human chain around the station to show our determined opposition to new nuclear.

Radiation Free Lakeland has invited councillors to join them on a walk up England’s highest mountain on March 10th to experience the scale of the proposed geological dump. Many councillors have expressed apologies at not being able to walk that far and sent their best wishes.

Across the UK on 10th March there will be events by different groups who will come together in spirit to reflect on the first anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear accident. Events will take place at Heysham in Lancashire, Hinkley in Somerset, Wylfa in Anglesey and more.

Hinkley Point is the first of eight proposed sites for nuclear new build to go ahead. We stopped them here before, and we can do it again. If they fail at Hinkley, it is unlikely the “nuclear renaissance” will have the momentum to continue.

Action will consist of a journey along the route used by nuclear trains* between Highbury & Islington and Stratford station, followed by a rally and symbolic die-in in front of Stratford Station.

Meet noon at Highbury and Islington Station (don’t be late.).

Leafletting at Highbury & Islington, Dalston Kingsland, Hackney Central and Hackney Wick by different groups getting off at intermediate stations and taking later trains, so we are all on same train between Hackney Wick and Stratford. (Train timetables will be available.)

On Tuesday 12th of May at the High Court in Leeds there will be a procedural hearing about Heysham Anti Nuclear Alliance's challenge to the Governments 'justification' of new nuclear power stations in the UK. (http://www.heysham-anti-nuclear-alliance.org/appeal.html) A judge will hear the arguments put forward by our QC and by the Government's QC and make a decision if the case should go to a full Judicial Review in London.

Nikki Clarke (Stop Hinkley) will be talking about the truth and lies surrounding the New Nuclear Programme.
Guest Speaker Joanne Baker (Child Victims of War) will be talking about the use of Nuclear Waste in conventional warfare.

Followed by a discussion on how to mobilise in the South West towards stopping the New Nuclear builds
Background info Related Link: http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net/

On Saturday 7th May S.W.A.N will be having a stall and a workshop at the Anarchist Bookfair. The theme of the workshop will be Cut Nuclear as this years Bristol Bookfair has a distinctly cuts flavoured theme....

Be part of the growing anti nuclear power movement in the UK. Protest and mass mobilisation is working for the anti-nuclear movement in Germany—the government are planning to quit its nuclear addiction and swap over to sustainable energy.

Skill Share, Networking and Protest

Power for the People-Not Profits for the Few

Friday 22rd – Monday 25th April

Spend Easter weekend camping on the beach at Sizewell and show your opposition to new nuclear power and the need for sustainable energy solutions. This weekend also marks the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl Disaster. The weekend includes a protest at the nuclear power station entrance, A public meeting, workshops and skill shares, woodland and beach walks, vegan grub and networking.Now is the time to take action against new build – come join us to say

As the world watches in horror at the events unfolding at Fukushima in Japan, please join us in expressing our sympathy with those who may now be affected and call on the government to abandon plans for new nuclear power stations in the UK.

Say no to nuclear power - not worth the risk.

Organised by CND and supported by Friends of the Earth, the Green Party, Scientists for Global Responsibility, Kick Nuclear and Counterfire.

Anti Nuclear Lecture Event in Thornbury , near Bristol

We have a lecture day planned on Saturday 27th November in Thornbury, nr Bristol and will also include a march against new nuclear. If you can make it for either the lectures or the march or both you will be welcome.

The Stop Nuclear Power Network is a UK-based non-hierarchical grassroots network of groups and individuals taking action against nuclear power and its expansion and supporting sustainable alternatives. We encourage and seek to facilitate nonviolent direct action, as well as more conventional forms of campaigning.